On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > The model of voting delegates the casting of votes to members of the > council; which are individuals, chosen by chapters. Purely from a > practical perspective, it may not be possible for chapters to get > council members in order by the deadline for this vote if they are not > already members. Additionally, it's important to distinguish in voting > between chapters abstaining and chapters simply not participating. > Choosing to be a member, while not exercising a vote, is effectively > assent to the outcome. This is not the case for those chapters which > have chosen not to join the WCA. >
while I agree that in principle WCA should serve the large Wikimedia community and its impact should definitely not be limited to members only, I believe it is quite dangerous from the point of view of governance to separate membership from voting rights. Although it could make perfect sense to accept non-member chapter functionaries as candidates for the board/chair/etc., the very right to vote should be reserved to those who opt-in. Otherwise the chain of responsibility gets fuzzy, plus what Nathan wrote. best, dariusz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
